Garter: alternatives and connections

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who…

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- ca…

a metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from…

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…

Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.

That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

A kind of stocking.